Thanks for pointing this out, Mary. Bill has been a steady voice and a daily visit for years.
Posted by iamcoyote at October 11, 2006 09:18 PMAs I type this, I'm forcing myself to finally catch Bush's press conference yesterday. I have to conclude that rationality and thoughtful analyses and solutions will not have any chance to exist until we rid ourselves of this "administration".
For once, Bush did not misspeak when he described "disassemblers" not telling the truth. He must have been looking in the mirror (assuming he had a reflection). This man's mind is so fragmented and disjointed that he is completely impervious to facts, rational arguements and even recent history.
I have come to believe that he readily accepts and then fervently believes whatever transparent spin he or his gang spew in the face of all facts. Once asserted, a "truth" concocted by his handlers or, even more frighteningly, by himself becomes unassailable. He really believes his own shit!
I blame Clinton. Alternatively, it could be the results of massive drug and alcohol based debauchery, combined with an upbringing; stern, accomplished, disdainful, distant father, a mother who makes Mommy Dearest resemble Mother Theresa and a smarter younger, brother who always beat him at everything except violence. Plus, he had early experience with an extended crime family that would make the Corleones envious.
The way the "family" delat with the death of his beloved older sister, by completely denying it, was great early training for his present syndrome. The bubble in which he's been carefully preserved has accelerated the decline. Even Laura seems to believe that the Stepford crowds they're shown on the endless campaigning trips he sems to enjoy, reflect the "most people" he always invokes when he declares that he understands what Americans want.
His rambling non-answers which he rudely accepts from the tame press corps show that he's actually obsessed with history and completely delusional about how "it" will judge him. I have no confidence that he would stop short of anything at all that he thought would enhance that judgement. He reported that one of the most moving experiences he's had as president was when a Japanese woman, I guess he forgot her name, sat in the Oval Office and described the North Korean, kidnapping of her child. Apparently, the feelings of hundreds of thousands of American and Iraqi mothers feelings, at the DEATH or dismemberment of their children is not quite so moving.
The U.S. of A. is being "led" by a criminal cabal desperately trying to control a deciderer with his finger, literally, on the nuclear trigger and who is clearly two tacos short of a combination plate. I'd like to be hopeful, but after watching Bush in action, Canada is looking prety darn good to me.
Posted by DeminNewJ at October 12, 2006 03:45 AM